Fruit very unusual, sausage shaped, up to 1 m × 18 cm, greyish-brown, heavily dotted with lenticels, indehiscent, heavy, weighing up to 12 kg, containing a fibrous pulp in which are embedded many seeds.

Habitat

It is a medium to large tree, up to 25 m in height, primarily found in wet Savannah woodland spreading into gallery woodland and along rivers in moist forests.

Bark Type

Smooth

Distribution

Distributed in South,Cental and West Africa and also distributed all over India but found abundantly in West Bengal